Going Green Just Got Greener! Solazyme Makes Green Oil!
Just in time for St. Patricks Day!
As I was working out on my elliptical machine this morning I was watching the Discovery Channel. The Program Game Changers was featuring the company Solazyme that is making diesel oil from algae.
Yup, the green stuff Tom was sitting in one of his last posts! Betcha didn't know you were sitting in a gold mine Tom! Now you know what to do with the Green water!
What Solazyme does; is take algae, add natural sugars from cane, grass, garden waste etc and ferment it. (just like beer) Algae has a
natural tendency to protect itself from the elements of sun and wind by producing oil.
This oil, Solazyme has found, can be used to make diesel fuel, olive type oil, and botanicals for skin care! Depending on the type of algae (there are thousands) and depending on the sugar they add, they can design the oil to suit the application.
They have spent years developing this technology and even found the cheapest way to do it is not to use the sun for photosynthesis to grow the algae, but adding sugar for photosynthesis and brewing it in the dark!
On the p
rogram Game Changers, they featured a drive test for petroleum based diesel and algae based diesel and the performance was exactly the same!
They showed a new skin care line, Algenist, made with the algae oil and also foods products, Solazyme-Roquette Nutritionals, that had been made (including ice cream) from the edible oil produced. 
The oil from algae for foods has less calories than other food oils! MMmmm! Send in the cookies!
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